vapory

• “One would say that Nagasaki is ascending at the same time as ourselves; but yonder, and very far away, in a kind of vapory mist which seems luminous on the blackness of the sky; and from the town there rises a confused murmur of voices and rumbling of gongs and laughter.”

  Madame Chrysantheme

• “And then a hand almost snatches it: a vapory hand with broken pink fingernails and cracked, burned skin.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Other Side of Dark

• “Even more beautifulwas that vapory vibration of accumulated sounds that never ceased for a moment, as it rose to the lip of granite where I stood wiping my foul mouth.”

  Archive 2009-02-01

• “Maybe another idea for the cutest thing ever is when you are asleep in bed, and in the middle of the night the gray things come bending down out of the walls, slowly lowering their vapory torsos until their faces are hovering just inches from yours.”

  Fictionaut: The Cutest Thing Ever (ii)

• “Each mountain, as if its firm and immutable form were flexible and varying, altered in appearance, like that of a shadowy apparition, as the position of the strangers relative to them changed with their motions, and as the mist, which continued slowly though constantly to descend, influenced the rugged as pect of the hilts and valleys which it shrouded with its vapory mantle.”

  Anne of Geierstein

• “Then they layer on morbid lyrics, vapory and spooky harmonies and bursts of organ or the peeling of chimes.”

  NPR: Low's Hypnotic New Album: 'Drums and Guns'

• “Imagine how fiercely they dip the cups, the life of their arms, the falling, how the horse's throat-deep, rhythmic sighs, and the vapory mist of each dipper's breath step forth, take their shapes, and are gone.”

  As long as we're on poetry

• “Far more disconcerting than their deaths was the unclear or “vapory” meaning of their lives.”

  The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876

• “She wore her glistening black hair in bands, and dressed in vapory white muslin.”

  The Fitz-Boodle Papers

• “Albaycin spread out like a map below; all buried in deep repose; the white palaces and convents sleeping in the moonshine, and beyond all these the vapory vega fading away like a dreamland in the distance.”

  Washington Irving

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